如果你曾听过特朗普总统谈论我们的选举，你可能会听到这样的说法：选民欺诈猖獗。非公民经常非法投票。我们的选举被操纵了。尽管研究一再表明这些说法根本不属实，但总统经常利用其舆论优势重复这些言论。但不只是总统。还有许多基层人士说同样的话，以证明投票限制的合理性，这些限制可能会剥夺合法选民的投票权，尤其是有色人种选民。
If you’ve ever listened to President Trump talk about our elections, you might hear something like this: Voter fraud is rampant. Noncitizens are regularly voting illegally. And our elections are rigged. The president often uses the bully pulpit to repeat these claims despite study after study showing they’re just not true. But it’s not just the president. There are many others at the ground level saying the same things to justify voting restrictions that could disenfranchise legal voters, especially voters of color.
其中一位是 J. Christian Adams。他是一名活动家，曾任美国司法部审判律师，2017 年被任命为特朗普总统选举诚信咨询委员会委员。如今，他是公共利益法律基金会（PILF）主席，该非营利组织主张更严格的选民身份证法律，并起诉州和地方政府，要求从选民名单中删除非法选民。
One of them is J. Christian Adams. An activist and former trial attorney for the US Department of Justice, Adams was named to Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in 2017. Today, he’s the president of Public Interest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for stricter voter ID laws and sues states and local governments to remove illegal voters from election rolls.
在本周的《More To The Story》节目中，Adams 声称美国存在系统性选民欺诈，在主持人 Al Letson 质疑其断言后突然结束了采访。随后 Al 与全国投票权记者 Ari Berman 对话，探讨像 Adams 这类活动家缺乏证据的情况、Adams 和 PILF 关于非公民非法投票的指控，以及声称选举欺诈猖獗的保守派活动家真正想要达到的目的。
On this week’s “More To The Story,” Adams claims there’s systemic voter fraud in the US before abruptly ending the interview after host Al Letson challenges his assertions. Al then talks with National Voting Rights Correspondent Ari Berman about the lack of evidence from activists like Adams, the claims Adams and PILF have made that noncitizens are illegally voting, and what conservative activists who say election fraud is rampant are really trying to achieve.
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